Is acupuncture "stimulation" a misnomer? A case for using the term " blockade"

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Is acupuncture "stimulation" a misnomer? A case for using the term " blockade"

Background: The term used most frequently in the literature to describe acupuncture's effects is " stimulation" which may be used to describe either (or both) the direct stimulus applied to a needle as well as putative stimulation of the nervous system, despite little published eviden...

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Main Author:	Silberstein, Morry
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	BioMed Central Ltd. 2013
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/37636

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